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The 9 Best Small Cities to Move to…
9 best small cities were recently ranked by Movoto Real Estate. They ranked cities of all sizes across a variety of criteria they considered important when defining the best small cities. Also they recently sought out the nine best small cities in American to move to. The usefulness of this ranking is both the list […]
The City Sociable, Leveraging Economic and Physical Assets to Create Civil and Sociable Places
The City Sociable is a serious town that works hard to create an environment that is interesting, safe, friendly and pleasant. Such a town constructs its social infrastructure to create an atmosphere that brings people together to find a common vision of their future and participate in community events and decisions. The City Sociable also describes how […]
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The Resilient City, How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster
Small city and town planning benefits for the insights in this book. The Resilient City, How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster[2010] is the story of survival. The authors reveal how 12 cities around the world have survived natural and man-made disasters. As a result, they are now better places for residents, businesses and visitors. The […]
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Best Places for Business and Careers
Best Places for Business and Careers is compiled by Forbes Magazine. The list describes the best places in each state with highlights for North Carolina, Utah and Texas. The cities cited and the ranking criteria offer a glimpse at what an objective viewer believes to be important in building a community that is good for […]
The City’s Form and Function – 2014
The city’s form and function based on sustainable urbanism is an urbanist town with its balance of social, economic and physical assets. The two trains of thought that have merge to provide a useful basis for city development are sustainability and urbanism. Sustainability theory tells us to balance the social, economic and physical attributes of the […]
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Triumph of the City, How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
Triumph of the City, by Edward Glaeser, [2011] happily demonstrates that the author is a big fan of cities. The city’s purpose, as he sees it, builds on Mumford’s 1961 foundational work with another half century of well-observed experience to extend and expand upon the basic conclusions. His tour of world cities provides lessons applicable to contemporary […]
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The 25 Best Places to Live…Where homes are affordable
Character towns are great places to live. “25 best places to live where homes are affordable” is a study of residents who live in 25 growing towns; families that see their incomes go the furthest. The work of the Huffington Post used median home price and median family income as the basic factors to determine […]